[Nut-upsuser] Geek Squad UPS Systems

[Doug Reynolds]

Peter Selinger wrote:

I wanted to mention that some of Cyberpower UPS use a USB to Serial 
bridge; I am not sure that the GS upses implement this method or not.  
If it has a serial port, try using the new 'powerpanel' driver (which I 
believe is in the new 2.0.5-pre2 release, and in the trunk).

> Dear Gary,
>
> NUT 2.0.3 is an ancient version. CPS support was added to newhidups
> much later.
>
> -- Peter
>
> P.S. please keep list traffic on the mailing list. Thanks! 
>
> Gary Redden wrote:
>   
>> You wrote the following on the NUT-upsuser mailing list
>>
>> To check if your device's USB interface is supported, try the
>> newhidups driver. You can run this driver (at first) as
>>
>>  drivers/newhidups -DD -u root auto
>>
>> If the device is not (yet) supported, then please find out the vendor
>> id and product id of the device; they should be in the debug output
>> from the driver (something like abcd/0123), or you can see them with
>> 'lsusb' or similar.
>>
>> -- Peter
>>
>> I have the same Geek Squad UPS.  Cyber Power Systems support told me to 
>> use newhidups driver but the following printout from newhidups seems to 
>> say the UPS is not supported. The only CPS UPS shown under newhidups is 
>> the 685AVR.  I have e-mailed CPS support to see if the 685AVR driver 
>> will work with the GS 1285U. But I do not know how to proceed.
>>
>> gary at redden-p700:~$ sudo /lib/nut/newhidups -DD -u root auto
>> Password:
>> Network UPS Tools: New USB/HID UPS driver 0.28 (2.0.3)
>>
>> debug level is '2'
>> Checking device (0764/0501) (001/003)
>> - VendorID: 0764
>> - ProductID: 0501
>> - Manufacturer: CPS
>> - Product:  GS 1285U
>> - Serial Number: unknown
>> - Bus: 001
>> Trying to match device
>> Device does not match - skipping
>> Checking device (0553/0202) (001/002)
>> - VendorID: 0553
>> - ProductID: 0202
>> - Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics
>> - Product: USB Dual-mode Camera
>> - Serial Number: unknown
>> - Bus: 001
>> Trying to match device
>> Device does not match - skipping
>> Checking device (0000/0000) (001/001)
>> - VendorID: 0000
>> - ProductID: 0000
>> - Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.15-27-386 uhci_hcd
>> - Product: UHCI Host Controller
>> - Serial Number: 0000:00:07.2
>> - Bus: 001
>> Trying to match device
>> Device does not match - skipping
>> No appropriate HID device found
>> No matching USB/HID UPS found
>> gary at redden-p700:~$ sudo lsusb
>> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0764:0501 Cyber Power System, Inc.
>> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0553:0202 STMicroelectronics Imaging Division 
>> (VLSI Vision) Aiptek PenCam 1
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>> gary at redden-p700:~$